Lottery scam quick guide: it's a scam if...

  • you win any lottery where you didn't buy a ticket! It's really that easy! It's not just too good to be true: it's bait in a trap!
  • you receive a generous grant out of the blue. Sadly (but not surprisingly) there aren't any benevolent people regularly throwing around millions of pounds/dollars/euros to randomly chosen people. This is just the lottery scam without the ticket.
  • they send you partial payment in the form of a cheque, money order, or direct bank transfer and want you to pay them fees out of that money. They're playing you for a sucker: cheques are frequently forged, and direct transfers made by compromising some poor schmuck's online banking service. You'll wind up a victim of fraud, or a party to it.
  • they want you to send them any money of any sort for any reason. They might try to say there are courier fees or taxes to cover. They're lying. Call their bluff and tell them to take the fees out themselves -- they'll never ever agree, because they can't defraud you unless money is making the reverse trip from you to them somehow.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD NOTIFICATION!!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: BRITISH NATIONAL AWARD PROMO!!! <infor_btl_award@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: btlnationalaward@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 26-Nov-2006 12:23
Subject: BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY AWARD NOTIFICATION!!!
To:




BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY INC.
5th Floor East
Commonwealth Centre
55 Currie Street London L70 1NL.
United Kingdom.


CONGRATULATIONS ...............................

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release from the British
International Lottery programme. Which is fully based on an electronic
selection of winners using their e-mail addresses, your email was
attached to ticket number
56475600545188  serial number 5368/02.

This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 03-06-08-10-12-16 bonus
number 27, which consequently won the lottery in the First category.
You
hereby have been approved a lump sum of £850,000.00(POUNDS STERLING)
in
cash credit file  KTU/9023118308/03 from the total cash prize of
£850,000,000.00(POUNDS STERLING) shared amongst Ten lucky winners in
this
category.

All participant were selected through a computer balloting system
drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from
canada,Australia,
United state, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communitties where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in London,United Kingdom, as indicated in your
play
coupon and your prize of £850,000,00, will be released to you from
this
regional branch office in London: We hope with part of your prize, you
will participate in our end of
year high stakes for L1.3 Billion international draw.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR BELOW WINNING PARTICULARS WHEN
CONTACTING YOUR AGENT: Batch: 12/25/0340 Ref: BTL/101OXI/02

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE,
Simply contact our fiducial agent,
MR. Terri Martins
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
Email: btlnationalaward@yahoo.co.uk
TEL:+44-701-112-8534


1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number (Country Code)-(Area Code)- Phone Number):
10:Cell Number:(Country Code) - (Cell Phone Number):
11.Fax Number:
12.Draw Number above:-
13.Annual income:
14.Payment Method  (Cheque / Draft):
15.Email Address:
Fill in the details below to your claims agent for verification.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize
released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or
unofficial personnel.

Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of
BRITISH
INTERNATIONL LOTTERY Cooperation to all our  lucky winners. Thank you
for
being part of this promotional lottery program.


Yours Sincerely,
Carol David (co-ordinator).

BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION.

THANKS: MANAGEMENT,
BRITISH LOTTERY INC

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks for the heads up. i've just received an email just like what you mentioned. i knew was a fraud and wanted to double check.

Anonymous said...

how can we identify if the email is a scam or not?they send me an image about microsoft lottery award team through BDC_AIRWAY BILL(DIPLOMATIC LUGGAGE)after i send my info to them..is that a scam or not?

Spotter said...

If you win a lottery and you didn't buy a ticket, it's a scam!

Anonymous said...

hi,how can i a sure i'am the winner if i recieved your email about these prizes.can you email me please..asap

Spotter said...

If you received an email like this, then it's a scam. Nobody ever suddenly wins a lottery they didn't enter just because they have an email address. It's always a scam.